Jennie was very popular with the young people and had
many beaus. She worked in the daytime sewing, and still had time
for parties and dances at night. Alpine was just a few miles away
and many of their good times were had there. Jennie and Mary Lee
had been saving their money to go to the dedication of the Salt Lake
Temple, which they did by riding the train to Salt Lake, brought their
lunch and sat on the edge of the sidewalk near the old tithing office to
eat it. They stayed in Salt Lake overnight with friends.
Jennie's
sister, Mary Lee, married George Myers of Highland. Jennie met
good-looking Elisha Peck, and after a stormy off and on courtship, she
decided that she loved him and wanted to be his bride. He had
built a small houose in Lehi and she collected rags and sewed and cut
them, to be woven into a lovely rug for her kitchen of their new
home. They were married in Salt Lake Temple, 20 Mar 1895.
The
years were good to them. They raised five wonderful
children and both she and her husband were very active in the church and
encouraged their family to do the same. Her children were Elmina
Jane who married Linel Larsen, Hazel Charlotte who married Bernell
Bateman (who died) and then married Arnold Schlappy, Elisha Odell Peck
and Emory Virgil Peck. Her husband passed away two months
before she did, at the age of 79, a week before his eightieth birthday,
in November 1951. Jennie died 30 January 1952 at the age of 76
years, and was buried at Lehi Cemetery.
Some of the things that
are being remembered were that Jennie and Elisha served on the Lehi Old
Folks Committee for twenty years, she was active in the Ward Relief
Society, serving on the quilting committee and in the burial department
for many years, making clothing for the dead and helping to lay them
out. She maintained the home during the absence of her husband on
his many missions, and active church life. Her home was filled
with love and kindness and was a place of refuge, not only to her own
family but for many others whom she welcomed and mothered. She
helped raise many of her nieces and nephews after the death of their own
mother. She took care of her father for many years before his
passing and her mother before her long illness took her, even though her
own health was not of the best. She suffered from Diabetes, a
desease which was responsible for her own death.